… stability of ecosystems. It was generally believed that ecosystems that harbored many
species were more stable than comparatively species-poor ecosystems (MacArthur 1955; Elton …

… the flow of nutrients between the two pathways. Large shifts in nutrient cycling and community
… pathway or toward the bacterial pathway resulted in less stable or unstable configurations. …

… The ecosystem stability properties, which are derived from … It should be pointed out, however,
that for ecological systems … with nutrient cycling, our function indicates asymptotic stability …

… of there being no consistent effect on ecosystem stability. This conclusion holds only for "…
are being conducted by the stream nutrient cycling group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (…

… To understand the influence of nutrient cycling on food chain stability, we first consider a
nutrient-… Our study shows that the effects of nutrient cycling on ecosystem stability depend on the …

… this direction has been made for nutrient cycling (Child and Shugart … models of both food
webs and nutrient cycles. In particular, it … The stability of material cycles has received attention in …

… in cycling nutrients in ecosystems and how these relate to biodiversity. We also pay attention
to the issue of stability in the context of evolutionarily stable … ) ecosystem stable equilibrium (…

… the role that both nutrient limitation and recycling can play in stability. Our objective is …
stability. The theoretical and empirical evidence relating these types of stability and nutrient cycling …

… to the community and ecosystem scales is a key mechanism regulating the extent to which
environmental perturbation may alter ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycling dynamics. …

… ] I asserted that, along soil fertility gradients, plant traits change in predictable ways that
reinforce patterns of fertility by creating positive feedbacks to rates of ecosystem nutrient cycling, …